Apprentice Site Joiner

Summary

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Site Joinery Apprentice to join our team in the New Year. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to start their career in joinery and gain valuable hands-on experience. Due to being picked up for lifts to the place of work, we are looking for a candidate who lives in Mapperley or Arnold.

Annual wage

£13,312 a year

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For the right candidate, as the apprenticeship progresses, there may be an enhancement to the apprenticeship wage

Training course

Carpentry and joinery (level 2)

Hours

Monday to Fridays 8am to 5pm with occasional weekend working where required. The earliest start time is respect of being collected for a lift to the place of work is 7am

40 hours a week

Possible start date

Tuesday 7 January

Duration

2 years

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

We install first and second fix joinery - all in domestic houses around Nottinghamshire.

Measuring and Cutting: Precision in measuring, cutting, and shaping wood and other materials using hand tools, power tools, and woodworking machinery
Installation: Installing structures such as doors, windows, staircases, furniture, and cabinetry in residential, commercial, and industrial buildings
Blueprint Interpretation: Reading and interpreting technical drawings, blueprints, and design specifications to ensure accurate construction and installation
Joinery Work: Creating and assembling wooden components, including joints and frameworks, ensuring structural integrity and aesthetic quality
Repairs and Maintenance: Conducting repairs and maintenance on existing wooden structures and fixtures, ensuring they remain safe and functional
Safety Compliance: Adhering to health and safety regulations to maintain a safe working environment

Where you’ll work

1 KILLISICK ROAD

ARNOLD

NOTTINGHAM

NG5 8BY

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

NOTTINGHAM COLLEGE

Your training course

Carpentry and joinery (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents

Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
Identify and use safety control equipment, for example, RPE, dust suppression, PPE and LEV.
Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
Interpret and use information from drawings and specifications.
Estimate required materials and produce a cutting list.
Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
Select, use and store hand tools.
Select, use and store power tools.
Maintain and sharpen hand tools.
Produce jigs.
Identifies well-being support available to self and others.
Site carpenter: Apply first fix techniques and practices for: 1. structural carcassing, 2. straight timber or metal partition walls, 3. floor joists 4. floor joist coverings and 5. straight flights of stairs.
Site carpenter: Install structural fixings.
Site carpenter: Size timber from sizing tables.
Site carpenter: Apply site second fix techniques and practices for:1. service encasement, 2. cladding 3. wall and floor units and fitments, 4. handrails and spindles to straight flights of stairs, 5. internal and external doors, 6. skirting boards and architrave, 7. window boards.
Site carpenter: Apply site carpenter techniques and practices to construction of rafter roofs, including trussed (prefabricated) and traditional (built on site) including the construction of verge, eaves and fitting loft access.
Site carpenter: Use and store laser levels for example cross line laser.
Site carpenter: Form connections, for example, using joints, nails, screws, bolts and adhesive.
Site carpenter: Apply measuring, marking out, cutting (square and angled), mitring, hinging and recessing techniques.
Site carpenter: Carrying out splicing and scribing techniques.
Architectural joiner: Produce setting out details, including setting rods, and mark out for timber products.
Architectural joiner: Produce basic woodworking joints including dovetail, bridal, mortise and tenon and halving.
Architectural joiner: Form connections using dowels, biscuit, staples and adhesives.
Architectural joiner: Apply techniques and practices to the manufacture and assembly of a timber window with casement including glazing rebates and associated ironmongery.
Architectural joiner: Apply manufacture and assembly techniques for first fix products: 1. straight staircases, 2. door frames and linings.
Architectural joiner: Apply manufacture and assembly techniques for second fix products: 1. timber doors, 2. wall and floor units, 3. timber mouldings, 4. staircase spindles and balustrades.
Architectural joiner: Fit ironmongery including door locks, door handles, door hinges, latches and draw runners.
Architectural joiner: Inspect, prepare and operate fixed machinery.
Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
Identify and use safety control equipment, for example, RPE, dust suppression, PPE and LEV.
Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
Interpret and use information from drawings and specifications.
Estimate required materials and produce a cutting list.
Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
Select, use and store hand tools.
Select, use and store power tools.
Maintain and sharpen hand tools.
Produce jigs.
Identifies well-being support available to self and others.

Your training plan

The next joinery college day release group starts at our Basford campus 20 March 2025. However you can start employment before then, so please dont delay in applying if you wish to be considered.

You will learn on the job and also study one day per week during term time at our Basford campus for 2 years, which is paid for as part of your normal working week.

Functional Skills - if you do not already hold GCSE min grade 4/C/Level 2 in English & Maths then you will also study maths & English alongside the apprenticeship.

More training information

Please note that all apprenticeships are achieved by sitting an End Point Assessment with a different organisation. This typically happens within a 3 month period after the 2 years at college.

Details of the full apprenticehsip are in the below link

https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/carpentry-and-joinery-v1-3

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English & maths (grade 3 or D or Level 1 pass)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience
Physical fitness

Other requirements

Please note that the address quoted is not going to be your place of work. The employer works at various domestic premises around Nottinghamshire - all within a 25 min commute time. For this reason the employer is looking for the candidate to live in Mapperley or Arnold areas so they can be easily collected for onward transportation to the current job they are working on. Please note that once the right candidate has been found, the vacancy will close early, so please dont delay in applying.

About this company

We have been trading for the last 10 years and work on domestic properties around Nottinghamshire. We install all first fix and second fix joinery. Our current apprentice is close to completion/becoming qualified, so we are looking to take on another apprentice to train & develop to support our growing team. Take a look at our instagram page for more about us and our projects @ironsidejoinery

After this apprenticeship

There may be an opportunity for ongoing employment for the right candidate upon successful completion of the apprenticeship. If there is a position available at this time.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

NOTTINGHAM COLLEGE

Nottingham College Apprenticeship Team

business@nottinghamcollege.ac.uk

0115 9457260

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000288259.

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Closes in 15 days (Monday 6 January at 11:59pm)

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